WASHINGTON (AP) — A unit run by President Barack Obama’s political staff inside the Environmental Protection Agency operates illegally as a “rogue law enforcement agency” that has blocked independent investigations by the EPA’s inspector general for years, a top investigator
BANGKOK (AP) — Thailand’s prime minister was ordered by a court to step down Wednesday in a ruling that handed a victory to anti-government protesters who have staged six months of street protests — but does little to resolve the
(Reuters) – British low-cost carrier easyJet said it would be the first airline to use drones to help maintain its fleet to keep a lid on its costs. The airline said drones – aircraft that do not have a pilot
From the Washington Post: One of the biggest challenges for the White House and other political leaders in the future will be grappling with algorithms on search engines and social networks that use a person’s online history and habits to
WASHINGTON (AP) — North Carolina House Speaker Thom Tillis moved ahead of a pair of anti-establishment rivals and bid to avoid a run-off Tuesday night in the race to pick a challenger to imperiled Democratic Sen. Kay Hagan, first in
WASHINGTON (AP) — House Democrats opened the door Tuesday to participating in a special panel’s investigation of the deadly attack in Benghazi, Libya, even if they see it as little more than an election-year ploy by Republicans to discredit the
NEW YORK (AP) — Ben Bernanke, the former chairman of the Federal Reserve Board, has a book deal worth at least $1 million, The Associated Press has learned. Bernanke’s agreement is with publisher W.W. Norton & Co. for a book
Music consumers can’t let Frozen go, but they’re giving a chilly reception to the rest of the pop music landscape. The Disney film’s soundtrack continues to rack up hearty sales, but that can’t disguise the fact that overall numbers are
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A car that trailed an official motorcade on to Pennsylvania Avenue prompted a security lockdown at the White House on Tuesday. A Secret Service spokesman said the car entered the security checkpoint at 17th Street and Pennsylvania
GENEVA (AP) — The Vatican revealed Tuesday that over the past decade, it has defrocked 848 priests who raped or molested children and sanctioned another 2,572 with lesser penalties, providing the first ever breakdown of how it handled the more
The Colorado Symphony hopes it found a new way to support itself in the face of fiscal uncertainty. The symphony is planning “cannabis-friendly” fundraiser concerts to take advantage of the state’s new marijuana legislation. The “High Note” series is designed
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Los Angeles Clippers President Andy Roeser is taking an indefinite leave of absence while the NBA restructures the franchise in the wake of owner Donald Sterling’s lifetime ban. Roeser’s immediate departure was announced Tuesday by the
(AFP) The United States will send a team of military and police experts to Nigeria to help find more than 200 kidnapped schoolgirls, amid a growing wave of outrage over their abduction. US Secretary of State John Kerry said Tuesday
Veteran actor Joe Morton of Scandal fame thinks the biggest problem facing President Barack Obama is not the stalled economy, the fallout from the upcoming Benghazi investigation, or health care reform regret. It’s those darn Republicans. Morton shared that view
An Indonesian widow who was gang-raped by eight ‘vigilantes’ as punishment for having an affair with a married man, is now to suffer the further indignity of being caned in public. The rapists caught the couple together when they barged
President Barack Obama’s aunt was buried Tuesday in her birth nation of Kenya, family members said, after her death last month in the United States. Zeituni Onyango, half-sister of Obama’s father, died aged 61 from cancer and respiratory problems, according
Sean Trende of Real Clear Politics is one of the leading analyst in the country . This is his latest thinking on the primary season which starts today. Today, the 2014 primary season begins in earnest. As with 2010 and
BEIJING (AP) — Chinese police shot and wounded a suspect who attacked passengers at a busy railway station in southern China on Tuesday, leaving six people injured in the third high-profile assault on civilians at a train station in a
WASHINGTON (AP) — Global warming is rapidly turning America the beautiful into America the stormy, sneezy and dangerous, according to a new federal scientific report. And those shining seas? Rising and costly, the report says. Climate change’s assorted harms “are
Today the Obama administration publishes its latest National Climate Assessment on the state of global warming. The bad news – inevitably – is that the news is very bad: more heat, more extreme weather, more drought, everything worse than ever
DONETSK, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine’s Interior Minister said Tuesday that 30 pro-Russian insurgents were killed during government operations to expunge anti-government forces in and near a town in the east. Arsen Avakov said on his Facebook page Tuesday that four
A prominent blogger has been arrested in Vietnam accused of disseminating anti-state articles in the communist country’s latest crackdown on online dissent, police said Tuesday. Nguyen Huu Vinh, 57, more commonly known as Anh Ba Sam, was arrested in Hanoi
CAIRO (Reuters) – Egyptian presidential frontrunner Abdel Fattah al-Sisi on Monday appeared to rule out reconciliation with the Muslim Brotherhood movement, raising the specter of a prolonged conflict with a group he said was finished. Sisi, who ousted the Brotherhood’s
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration is more certain than ever that global warming is changing Americans’ daily lives and will worsen — conclusions that scientists will detail in a massive federal report to be released Tuesday. Once people thought
